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@willemdafoe62 Can you expand on your middle paragraph? I don’t follow. For what it’s worth we are not married and won’t be for a little while. I am absolutely a conservatively minded person. Paid my way through five years of American uni without any loans or financial support. Near term...

@stephendisraeli Aren't we considered residents indefinitely by the gov? IIRC this is the basis of the legality of these restrictions and that we aren't subject to taxation without representation, as we are still able to vote in the elections of our previous residence. At the moment I have my...

@five2one At least for this year I had a ton of deductions coming from double house hold deductions and I also had a ton of commuter/travel deductions that significantly worked to my benefit.

@five2one My personal situation allows me to take advantage of a ton of tax deductions.

@stephendisraeli And what does “everyone else” do? From my understanding most people here invest in pension schemes/insurances. Aside from that, it sounds like I should just convert euros to dollars and invest as usual? Is there anything worth looking into other than the usual “you’re fucked...

@stephendisraeli Is this something actually enforced for average joes? Although I take it that it doesn't matter as you probably don't want to take risks with retirement plans

@tessal Hi do you have any literature recommendations for me regarding what's not legal for me to invest in? Is it primarily stuff to do with sanctioned countries?

@frhi Can you expand on that? Can I not open up an account here and invest in the local market with euros? Or are europeans able to somehow invest directly in the American market with euros? Shouldn’t I be able to do everything the same so long as I report everything correctly?

@frhi Yup, I already have an account with Chase and Fidelity and I’ve been here for three years. However I was wondering if it’s practical/makes sense to convert euros to dollars for investing or if there’s a traditional alternative that people do here instead that would be better

I’m a recent college grad (engineering) with US+EU citizenship planning to stay in Germany indefinitely as my fiancé is German. Starting a new job as an engineer making €63k which isn’t much coming from the US but the company will buy me a car for private use and pay for insurances and...